Tornado blows vehicles off highway in N. Carolina, kills 1

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The same weather system struck Oklahoma a day earlier.

Severe weather experts there picked through debris and damage Thursday to determine whether tornadoes touched down after severe storms moved through the state, toppling trees and knocking out power to thousands of people.

A tornado reported near the southern Oklahoma town of Paoli apparently picked up a mobile home off the ground with a woman and her son inside, said Garvin County Emergency Management Director Buck Pearson.

The woman, Cindy Ward, suffered some broken toes and was bruised, but the boy was not hurt. Ward managed to get her son into an interior closet just before the storm hit the home.

"There was no shaking, no rattling, no sound like a freight train," Ward told the Pauls Valley Daily Democrat. "It wasn't a calm before the storm. It just pickled it up and slammed it down. The only noise we heard was 'kaboom' when the house landed."

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